# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S95
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 98

Your Board concurs in the recommendation of the Board for
Higher Education that instructors in physical education be engaged
by Synod for its preparatory schools.

The floors of the corridors of Schick Hall were covered with
asphalt tile. The major portion of the heating pipes have been
reinsulated, and the Central District has financed the painting work
of some of the buildings.

In order to relieve the president of some of his heavy load,
your Board appointed Mr. Paul Liebmann as business manager of

the school.
Requests

a. Concordia College at Fort Wayne, as Synod’s oldest theo-
logical preparatory school, naturally has some buildings which
have been in use for many decades. The old Administration
Building was erected in 1849, almost a century ago, and in the
course of time has been used as a dormitory and classroom building
and at one time partly as a faculty residence. At present it houses
some of the offices, the bookstore, and some music facilities. This
building is old, inadequate, inconvenient, and not fireproof. The
registrar’s offices must be located on the second floor, to which
access can be gained only by means of a long narrow stairway.
The business offices are in cramped quarters. The president’s offices
must be located in another building. The centralization of admin-
istrative offices and facilities is impossible under the present
conditions. Other educational facilities desirable for modern edu-
cational administration and guidance are impossible unless new
facilities are provided.

When Schick Hall was erected in 1905 and the library was
located in a room on the second floor of this building, the im-
portance of the library as a functional aspect of modern education
was not fully realized. At present, the facilities are inadequate
as to space and equipment.

The educational life of the school should center around the
library, the facilities of which should help accomplish the educa-
tional objectives of the school. The library should likewise be
readily and easily accessible as well as attractively equipped, so
that the proper aesthetic tastes will be developed. It will play
a part also in the “Housemaster and Counselor Program” being
developed at our school.

. With the present facilities it is not possible for the library to

22 function effectively, and it is below the general requirements of
the North Central Association.

, In view of these facts we respectfully petition Synod to grant

our college a new Administration-Library Building.